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H. OTTOLENGHl-WEDEKIND. METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DESIGN CARDS. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, I922.

1Ag2 885 Patented July 18, 1922.

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av A ITEIRNE/ H. 0TTOLENGHl-WEDEKIND. METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DESIGN CARDS. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, I922.

' Patented July 18, 1922.

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0 INVENTU P\ IT Ttifi METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DESIGN CARDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.

Application filed. March 22, 1922. Serial No. 545,878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERTA OTTOLENGHL NEDEKIND, subject of Kingdom of Italy, residing at Genova, Italy, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Manufacturing Design Cards, of which the following is a specification The present invention relates to a method of mechanically producing cards for looms, designs for wall-paper and cloth printing and other designs for technical art productions, yielding at the same time a softness of the outlines and a variety of forms emanating organically of its own accord, as Wlll never be obtained by the known methods.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 shows the pattern on coordinate squares, the smaller squares being omitted, and

Fig. 2 shows the record of the pattern also on coordinate squares and showing in characteristic straight lines the pattern of Fig. 1.

The method makes use of the employment of a smooth, medium strong sized paper or other substance as indicated in Fig. 1 by the numeral 1 which will not take up moisture, so that ink or china ink 2 or the like printed thereon will remain moist for some time. The said paper or the cloth is provided by means of lithography or otherwise with a very fine net of squares not shown as for instance 13 squares to one centimetre. In order to facilitate the counting of the centimetre lines the latter may be indicated in horizontal and vertical direction by heavier lines 3.

The paper is then folded along one or several of the heavier printed lines 3 in such a way that two symmetrical sections belonging together will always be formed. Upon each individual section straight lines or curves or the like may be drawn with ink, china ink or the like by means of a piece of wood, brush or the like. Thereupon the paper or cloth is folded and the lines or curves drawn thereon rubbed in by brushing past the back of the paper or cloth, whereby a complete symmetrical design is formed upon the sections belonging together, by the re printing of the ink or china ink.

In case after the first print no designs are produced which can be used, further lines and curves are drawn and the rubbing is continued until a harmonizing design is obtained.

On account of the lithographed squares the design may be read off, that is it may be counted off and transferred to a card 4, design or sketch provided with larger squares 5. The characteristic, straight lines 6 indicate various colors or shades corresponding to the colors of the design of Fig. 1. The original design produced on the paper or cloth will not have the same shading throughout, that is, shadings in accordance with the uneven dissolving of the ink or china ink. The design may be dissolved into several shades, which may be transferred in the various shades or colorings to the card, design or drawing-copy in the shape of streaks or outlines. Thus surfaces having the same color are obtained, which border on surfaces of different color, and in accordance with the original design in stronger or lighter shadings. g

The various shadings may be well expressed by means of few color shades. By the few colors merging into each other extraordinary soft outlines are produced which are preferably adapted for carpet, cloth and curtain weaving or the like, for which the cards produced may be employed at once.

The designs may also be easily used for embroidery, namely like any cross-stitch design on tapestry canvas cloth of any desired size. They may also be employed for the manufacture of printing forms for wallpaper and cloth printing, and for the manufacture of designs for all kinds of technical art productions (such as chandeliers, firescreens, lattice-work and so on composed of cut wood or metal, glass windows, glazed tiles or the like).

In the process described, the designs are formed almost of their own account and thus offer such .an inexhaustible variety of new and particular shapes, as even keenest imagination would be unable to create.

I claim:

In a method of forming designs which consists in producing a portion of a design on sized. coordinate paper, completing the various characteristics indicating the vari- 10 ous colors.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

HERTA OTTOLENGHl-WEDEKIND.

Witnesses PAUL DEBY ANNA NIEDERMAIER. 

